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Foreign Mission Board
October 13-14, 1959
The Foreign Mission Board met in annual session on October 13-14, 1959. Mr. L.
Howard Jenkins presiding.
Present: Samuel E. Maddox, James E. Davidson, Alabama; W.O. Vaught, Jr., Arkansas;
George Wilson, Arizona; Robert D. Hughes, California; S. Lewis Morgan, D.C.;
Monroe F. Swilley, Clifton A. Forrester, Howard P. Giddens, Georgia; Forrest Siler,
Kansas; Fred T. Moffatt, Carroll Hubbard, Kentucky; James W. Middleton, Louisiana;
Leslie M. Bowling, Maryland; Lewis F. Rhodes, Mississippi; Sterling L. Price, Mo.;
Walter A. Mitchell, New Mexico; V. Ward Barr, Mrs. Foy J. Farmer, North Carolina;
C. Murray Fuquay, Oklahoma; R. Paul Caudill, Tennessee; M. B. Carroll, W. H. Crook,
Mrs. R. L. Mathis, Phillip Brown, Billy Graham, Texas; C. Bailey Jones, Virginia.
Local Members: Howard L. Arthur, Lawrence Bradley, Mrs. Kenneth Burke, Solon B.
Cousins, J. Levering Evans, Horace Ford, Stuart Grizzard, Mrs. Clyde V. Hickerson,
Oscar L. Hite, Josiah Hoover, L. Howard Jenkins, Garis T. Long, Elton Phillips,
Emmett Y. Robertson, Herman P. Thomas, James Todd, Mrs. John C. Tyree, P. Earle Wood.
Staff: Baker J. Cauthen, Frank K. Means, Winston Crawley, Cornell Goerner, Elmer
West, E. L. Hill, Rogers Smith, Edna Frances Dawkins, James Stertz, Bill Cody, Luke
Smith, Fon Scofield, Floyd North, E. L. Deane, Ralph A. Magee, lone Gray, Genevieve
Greer, E.L. Wright, Mary E. Fuqua.
Guests: Charles E. Maddry, Arnold Ohrn, Bob Denny, Dr. and Mrs. T.F. Adams, Miss
Helen Falls, Herbert Jackson, Emily Lansdell, George Carver, Lavell Seats, Mrs.
Eric Rudin, Mrs. George Martin, Miss Carrie Vaughan, Miss Alma Hunt, W. C. Fields,
Truett Smith, John J. Hurt, Joe Odle, Mrs. Raymond Hurt, Erwin McDonald, Gainer
Bryan, R. G. Puckett, Richard Owen, Dr. Woodrow Fuller, Dr. George Shearin, Miss
Bertha Smith, Miss Aletha Fuller, Miss Lolete Dodson, Miss June Cooper, Mrs. Lester
Knight, Mr. Grady Wilson.
Tuesday, October 13, 1959
The first session was held at the Mosque. The Virginia Baptist Brotherhood rented
the building for the evening and approximately 6,000 were present in the auditorium
and listening over loud speakers in other parts of the building. Mr. James Copeland
led the song service preceding the meeting, and Mr. Richard Cook played the organ.
Rev. George Euting, executive secretary of the Virginia Baptist Br otherhood, led
the devotional period.
Dr. Cauthen spoke briefly and filed the following report for the minutes:
REPORT OF DR. CAUTHEN
We have before us for consideration at this meeting the 1960 operating budget of
the Foreign Mission Board. It totals $11,398,893 and is the largest budget ever
considered by this Board.
This budget provides for the support of more than 1,360 missionaries in forty
countries and the work of evangelism, church development, Christian education,
theological seminaries, publishing houses, hospitals, clinics, good will centers,
and many other ministries in which they are engaged.
The preparation of this budget calls for an extensive and careful procedure. On
mission fields most work is under the supervision of committees or boards. Those
units study carefully their needs, taking into account all available funds from
national churches and conventions.
Their recommendations are then examined by the mission organizations. It is neces¬
sary to delete many items and reduce many of the amounts requested in order to
bring the recommendations within a figure that may be considered.
When the missions have studied their needs, they then vote to request from the
Foreign Mission Board the amounts of money upon which they have agreed.
When the mission recommendations arrive at the Foreign Mission Board, they are
given further administrative study in light of resources available. It was neces¬
sary to eliminate from the 1960 budget requested items for current operations totalling
$651,312 because of insufficient funds. Even with these deletions the 1960 budget
is $1,086,825.97 larger than the budget for 1959.
